Guess what, bitches, when you controlled the state legislature after the 2000 census you called it redistricting. Since you didn’t control the state legislature after the 2010 census, you now call it gerrymandering.

I just looked at the POL page for the first time in a long time. Lots of pics of current haters whom I had’nt seen yet and lots of pictures of old haters that I’d kinda forgotten about. Who pissed off Herr Morgenholtz and Sohos anyway? Herr was funny bastard and I liked the way Sohos dropped the F-bomb when she was drunk.

No more than $500, Oso. Didn’t care for the pieces at Ikea, wanting more of a nice furniture look. So, I keep trolling craigslist. I’ll find one somewhere in AZ one of these days. Of course, the Axeman needs to demonstrate a little interest by cleaning his room.

Last time it was cold here I just had Mrs. Pendejo iron the sheets before we put them back on the bed. Slept warm as shit all night long. i wish she wouldn’t have ironed over that ass-crack-skid-mark though. It never fully came out. Had to flip the sheet upside down so that it’s on her side now.

At least it’s not white, which would make me look older than dirt like some radio personality I will decline to mention.

By the way, Dave, I grew a mustache around Christmas and am still trying to decide whether I want to keep it. This was after you said that wimmens like it, and is part of my ongoing program to be more like you.

Scott, we’re talking about the guides on my professional quality Wahl clipper, which I didn’t even know existed until recently discovered in the garage in pristine condition. I think Cathy intended to cut the kids’ hair, but it never happened.

I tried to learn about this thing by experimenting on my pubes first. It worked really good on a location which gets no exposure anyway.

Can you imagine what LeMay would say about putting women into front line combat?

I’ve always believed that we should let the military do what it thinks it needs to in order to accomplish its mission. Without handicapping them with social engineering mandates thrown into the mix. If they want women in combat, fine. If not, then don’t mess with them – their plate is pretty full already.

It’s enough to ask them to die for us. We shouldn’t be telling them how to live as well.

I just spitballing here, but I think it has to do with devotion. To their religion and their country and their very existence. That level of devotion, or maybe commitment, is not required here. Many sign up here for love of their country, but we are not fighting for our lives.

My youngest daughter is making noise about going into the military after she gets her degree. I hate to be all selfish and shit, but I’m probably going to try to steer her away from being in the infantry.

Not everything the IDF does needs be emulated. Prior to the Gulf War, the IDF air force tried to warn how the USAF was going to get decimated by the Iraqis. They were in fact stunned by how well we did. The only AF to take Israel’s advice was the RAF. They had trained for 20 years on low-level strikes on airfields, and it turned out, yes they could hit them, but they also took horrendous losses.

The IDF tried again to give advice to the Army before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. They were again stunned by the performance of the US.

The US Army tried to warn the IDF about operations in Southern Lebanon in 2006. They ignored us, and suffered a defeat.

The primary reason the IDF has such a great rep is they’ve only fought Arab forces.

Comes down to the standard of fighting readiness. The Israelis have determined and adjusted their training to accommodate women in combat readiness. That is their complete order of battle, how much you have to be able to carry into the fight, how you operate, all of it, includes the natural physical difference between genders.

We’re fussing about “lowering standards” without asking the hard questions, “Did we create the requirement to carry a 120 pound pack and a weapon because most able bodied young men can do this and therefore that’s how our standard evolved”. Shouldn’t we ask rather “how can we fight better?”

I figure we’re about 10 years out from android/drone hybrids anyhow (America’s appetite for casualties keeps going down), and then the operator’s sex won’t matter in the slightest. It’s this or power-armor, which seems much less likely.

How did those standards evolve? WIth young men fighting, and training to fight.

What if, and I’m just spitballing here, we could figure out how to let women fight who were able and willing? Wouldn’t the standards adjust to meet the mission? Or would we just stick to our “they can’t carry 120 pounds so they are mission ineffective”. The mission isn’t carrying 120 pounds, the mission is killing the enemy.

The mission is killing the enemy, Dave, but isn’t there also a need to carry the equipment you need? And what if a man goes down and needs his ass drug out of somewhere? Very few women I think could pull that kind of weight. And it seems like it would make it unrealistic to maintain the necessary camaraderie should that be the perception.

OK, here is my opinion from having spent years inside the beltway:
1) This was pushed on the military
2) Standards will be gender-normed
3) Rape and assault reporting will skyrocket
4) The first female O-3 infantry officer in combat will be awarded the Silver Star
5) She will also have the highest mortality rate of any company in the Brigade.
6) Leftist/feminists will declare the integration a success until the Chinese overrun us.

Well Wiser my point is the standards were driven as a result of what young men were capable of doing. Lifting and all that stuff.

The “standards” would be different if we factored in the lesser physical capabilities of women, but would those mean less combat effectiveness? I don’t think so, I think rather the standards would adjust to “how can we make the soldier as lethal as possible in the field, given the *list all the factors here now*?

It pisses me off that liberals who have never seen combat themselves are deciding that women should be in combat.
As I snarked to my liberal friend today, the only hand to hand ombat Leon Panetta has ever done is with pork chops.

If they can make this thing into a very small and lightweight apparatus, combat soldier’s effectiveness could improve a lot. This could power a exoskeleton, an energy weapon, and all the gizmos that suck power for which soldiers have to lug batteries around.

Dave, women serve well in many roles. Right now, there really is no “standard” for a lot of the stuff grunts and gunbunnies and tankers have to do. It’s just assumed men can do them.

Carry a shitload of stuff because that’s what the mission calls for? That’s the standard.

But the only “standard” on paper is that every soldier must pass the Army Physical Fitness test (which is normed for both gender and age), and for MOS11B, lift a 60# weight before signing the enlistment contract. It’s not even tested in training. But the fact is, if you cannot complete marches or consistently fail to keep up with the unit, your commander will either fob you off on some other job, or eventually chapter you out of the service for “failure to adjust to the military lifestyle.”

Some guys, with all the heart in the world, just can’t hack it. They’re shunned, and shown the door.

I’ve never actually had a conversation with anybody from the “at some point you’ve made enough money” crowd on the topic of taxation. My first impulse would be to pin them down on WHO gets to decide the confiscation rate for each individual. And then pin them down on WHY that person or committee or whatever is omnicompetent enough that we should trust his/her/their judgement. When I’ve througoughly teased out their answer, I’d like ot think that I would then beat them about the head, shoulders, and crotch until they could no longer resist, take their wallet out of their pocket, rifle through it and take everything they own except for $2 and tell them that I chose me to make those decisions on his behalf.

Grunts today in shitcanistan are schlepping 70-90 pounds up and the mountains, day after day….
How many women can do that, and for how long?
This is bullshit and should killed immediately.
Go look at Cdr Sal’s blog and see that the Navy is now touting “DIVERSITY” as its primary mission.
These Alinskey MOFOS are trying, very hard, to gut the US military.
They are succeeding.
I weep for my country…

I’d like ot think that I would then beat them about the head, shoulders, and crotch until they could no longer resist, take their wallet out of their pocket, rifle through it and take everything they own except for $2 and tell them that I chose me to make those decisions on his behalf.

Be sure to sodomize them. It lends a distinctive federal touch to the proceedings.

Believe me, I’d love to hear suggestions about lightening the load. Hell, the Army was so concerned about the load, they’ve started buying machine guns with fucking TITANIUM!!! receivers because it shaves 4 pounds off the weight for only twice the cost per gun.

Dave, as a guy who spent more time mounted than light, yeah, obviously you try to move stuff on vehicles. But in spite of 100 years and literally billions spent on research, infantry combat still more often than not occurs in places vehicles can’t go.

The Army is just now starting to weed out the dirtbags they let enlist in 2006-2009 during the worst of Iraq. Raising the enlistment standards again. In fact, they’re higher now than when I was recruiting, and it’s having very good effects in the line units.

I’m sorry, but I’m just thinking of the right words to say.
I know they don’t sound the way I planned them to be.
But if you wait around a while, I’ll make you derp for me,
I promise, I promise you I will.